Bug 60771

Summary:	kde is compiled with --enable-fast-malloc but not activated
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John Herdy <johnherdy>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Herdy 2004-08-18 06:45:53 UTC

kde is compiled with --enable-fast-malloc. You can use the fast malloc routine instead of the libc routine if enviroment-variable KDE_MALLOC is set to 1. Hereby I would like to make a request to add  KDE_MALLOC="1" to /etc/env.d/99kde-env if kde is compiled with --enable-fast-malloc (the default).

Also for people who don't read the documentation very carefully it might be an idea to add a commented out line KDE_IS_PRELINKED=true to /etc/env.d/99kde-env. Maybe more possible kde environment variables can be added to /etc/env.d/99kde-env (commented out).

For more kde environment variables see http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Environment+Variables&diff=2

Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-18 10:54:16 UTC

probably will put this into kde-base/kde-env as a new version.

Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-02 14:18:31 UTC

now in kde-env-3

thanks for the report.

Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-02 01:22:01 UTC

Putting here just for reference:
probably the environment variable is not needed, and the use of
fast malloc is discouraged in certain cases.

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-optimize&m=109570191906104&w=2
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=109665200700272&w=2